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I agree - the top ad takes more prominence than the title of the site.

It's not all that clear how it works. How do I earn money? Why are there loads of posts by the same people?

In these days of broadband everywhere, it might not matter much, but your profile thumbnails haven't been resized, but are big huge photos resized via the height / width attributes in the HTML. So this image for example (1200 * 1600 pixels) takes a while to download. Might be worth trying to make your profile thumbnails smaller...

But sorry for sounding negative. It must have taken a lot of work. I still haven't learnt anything about ASP.NET...

I would consider relacing the google adsense ad at the very top with a well designed header and logo. You could also, just create a cool graphic header and logo and keep "friendtrain". I would, however, experiment with differrent font fot the site title.

The site is good, and I like the concept...But you need more traffic to get it going...

I would suggest you to re-work on your Logo and Graphics.. And since you have the header 'Posts', let no. of posts show against a User's profile...

Lastly, "What's this all about" is good for introduction but make it more prominent by putting it within a callout box and working on Colors and background, so that it does get noticed by any new visitor on your website.

It is a decent concept, but hardly original. I could imagine a bunch of teens signing up and encouraging their friends to click on ads so they could make money. Huge potential for click fraud on this site.

As for the design, it need MORE COLOR! More more more more more more more more. It's as bland as bland can be. The overall layout is fine, but it needs more color.

Also, I'd get rid of the striped header. That irritates my eyes. No joke, I'm starting to get a headache just from looking at it for a few seconds.

The "posts" and "archive" buttons at the top would look better with graphics to give them a rounded look.

I never will understand the wave of collective unconcious decisions on what is the 'cool' and 'in' networking site. It seemed like myspace was the king, then facebook came out of nowhere and was the big thing

for some reason the 'shared revenue' doesn't seem to excite people. Maybe have a random winner of ALL the revenue... or split it up among ten people each month. Then it won't be pocket change, it'll be the lottery, which people love to play

I do not think that your ads is too many, only 3 place for ads Site look good. May be is good idea to have unique logo. I have only one note for you.
You have a problem with mozilla rendering. Here http://www.friendtrain.com/ViewProfile.aspx?id=199
I see right part of "past posts" under right column.

personally the site took a while to load and made me want to leave, but i stayed because i wanted to check it out more.. the what's this all about section should be removed and maybe just have a call to action graphic saying "What is this". A paragraph of text or content that may take over a minute to read for some people usually turns users off. I like sites similar to partyaftermath.com and facebook.com where you're not bombarded with advertisements at the beginning. Seems like there are too many ads.

Will Webb
www.InnateMediaGroup.com
Innovations In Real Time
Professional Web Development